Word: somewhat
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Tons of Money" is of the money-love-confusion- revelation drama variety, a type of play growing from the intrigues of the Restoration. The plot is somewhat originally handled; the jokes are on the shady side of forty, and beginning to show their age. Yet the play is funny, exceedingly so, and rather satisfactory, despite the acting of most of the cast. Admirers of Mr. Clive and his policy of stressing the farce will get theirs at "Tons of Money...
Royal "Gassooning." A somewhat panegyrical biography³² and a scholarly travel book¼³ concerning Edward of Wales are current. From the former an anecdote...
Someone has called Beardsley "an inspired grasshopper." It is a poor metaphor. Few grasshoppers prefer candles to the sun. Very thin, very long-handed, long-nosed, always a flower in his buttonhole, he infuriated William Morris by his somewhat ambiguous drawings for an Arthurian poem. Other people liked him better; his drawings in the Yellow Book caused critical thunderstorms. Esthetes strove to imitate in prose and verse the Beardsley gift for wistful evilness. His friends denied that he was obscene; in that denial they took from him his character and his curse. There could be nothing dirtier than certain prints...
...shaped, green New England shutters on p. 408. The collection of cobblestones, sealskin sacques, decalcomanias, bustles, buggies, political platforms and gimcrack customs, all echoing to the tinkle of bicycle bells and chandeliers, is truly remarkable. In fact, it is so remarkable that the exhibitors' enthusiasm made them somewhat forget their narrative obligations. The ingenuous characters are gently regarded as being almost as odd today as were (allegedly) grapefruit and golf to oldtime Chicago...
After all, it is somewhat absurd to think that the University cannot compete successfully with lunch counters and Greek cafeterias in providing for the student dining trade. These places are at present profiting hugely because they present a wide variety of food that is comparatively well prepared and not too expensive...